Bowling
This is how many frames a game has.
8
10
15
20
What is 10.
Item used instead of a Bowling ball about 900 years ago.
A. Stick
B. Cusion
C. Frisbee
D. Rock
What is rock. http://www.bowlingballs.us/bowling.htm
A strike can be worth _____ points at its highest and _____ points at its lowest.
10...0
20...10
30...10
40...10
30...10
Which 3 numbers have the same answer whether they’re added or multiplied together?
Answer: 1, 2 and 3.
The air in Earth's atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent ______ and 21 percent _______.
What is nitrogen...oxygen?
During bowling, a scanner camera snaps a photo to see which pins are standing and which are knocked over. This photo will help ______automatically and pick up standing pins. (fill in the blank with a word starting with “s”)
score
____ is scored when a player knocks down all the pins on the first roll in the frame. _____ is scored when all of the pins have been knocked down during the second ball of a frame when not all the pins were knocked.
What is a Strike and a Spare.
A British anthropologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, discovered in the 1930's a collection of objects in a child's grave from ancient ______ that appeared to him to be used for a crude form of bowling. If he was correct, then bowling traces its ancestry to about ______, becoming one the oldest sports.
A. Rome...200 AC
B. China...200 BC
C. Greece...1200 BC
D. Egypt...3200 BC
Egypt...3200 BC https://www.bowlingmuseum.com/Visit/Education/History-of-Bowling
What is the score for the following:
1st frame| 2nd frame|3rd frame -- 8 1|7 /|5 4
Hint: Spare / -- 10 points + the number of pins you knock down in your first attempt at the next frame. (10 seconds)
33
What is the bottom number of a fraction called?
The denominator
What do NOT dolphins use echolocation for?
A. Find food
B. Navigate
C. Jump out of water
D. Fight with shark
Jump out of water
The position sensor Mark Rober used in his bowling ball is also used in your:
car
electric scooter
smartphone
television
smartphone
Strikes in even numbered frames, spares in odd numbered frames, and Strike Spare in the 10th.
What is "A French 200?"
What is "A Dutch 200?"
What is "A Germany 200?"
What is "An American 200?"
What is "A Dutch 200?"
During the early 1900s, bowling balls were actually made of _____ and later, ______.
heavy rubber...wood
heavy rubber...plastic
wood...plastic
wood...heavy rubber
wood...heavy rubber
https://pinchasers.net/blog/amazing-facts-never-knew-bowling/
The total score if a strike is rolled in every frame of the game:
(Hint: Strike X -score 10 points + the number of pins you knock down in your next two rolls; A player who bowls a strike in the tenth/final frame is awarded two extra balls for bonus points.)
100 points
200 points
300 Points
400 points
300 Points
When my dad was 31 years old, I was just 8 years. Now his age is twice as old as my age. What is my present age?
23 years old now.
How does weather seem to affect the novel coronavirus?
A. The virus can’t survive in hot, humid climates.
B. Cold temperatures can kill the virus.
C. Warm weather slows down the spread of the virus.
D. It is not yet known.
D. It is not yet known.
iPhone 12 has a "brain" called A14 chip, the most advanced chip built on a 5-nanometer process. There are about ________transistors (you can think of them as switches) in A14 chip, which has a size of 88 mm^2, about your nail size.
A. 2 million B. 2 billion
C. 12 million D. 12 billion
12 billion
These two pins have always been the hardest split to knock down.
1 and 6
4 and 7
3 and 5
7 and 10
What is 7 and 10.
In 1948, two bowling lanes were built in the West Wing of The White House as a birthday gift to the president at the time, _______.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The best bowling entry angle for getting more strikes is between _________.
3 and 6 degrees
13 and 16 degrees
3 and 16 degrees
6 and 16 degrees
3 and 6 degrees
Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system, is about 4.2 light-years or 24,635,923,000,000 miles away from Earth. Space probe Voyager 1 is traveling out of the Solar System at a speed of 35,000 miles per hour. At this speed, Voyager 1 would take about ______ years to get to Proxima Centauri! (can use a calculator if you like).
A. 800 B. 8,000
C. 80,000 D. 800,000
80,000 years!
True or false: The novel coronavirus or COVID-19 is mutating rapidly.
False. The novel coronavirus is periodically changing, or mutating, in form. It doesn't seem to be mutating particularly rapidly. By contrast, according to the CDC, the flu is constantly changing. This is why flu vaccines must be updated each year. https://www.jnj.com/innovation/quiz-results-how-much-do-you-really-know-about-covid-19
Pick up an incorrect statement about radio waves:
A. They are used for communication such as radio.
B. They do not cause damage if absorbed by the human body.
C. They travel slower than light but faster than sound.
D. They are a type of electromagnetic radiation.
Radio waves and light are both electromagnetic waves and travel at the speed of light.
Two strikes in a row are called a ______, three strikes in a row are called a ______, while four and five strikes in a row are called four/five-______ and so on and so forth.
turkey...triple...baggers
baggers...triple...turkey
double...turkey...baggers
double...triple...turkey
What is double...turkey...baggers?
The word bowl could be derived from the Saxon bolla which meant "bubble" originally, but which later came to mean anything _______. (spell the word, it starts with "sp".)
What is the score for the following:
1st frame| 2nd frame|3rd frame -- 9 /| X|8 1|
Spare /: 10 points + the number of pins you knock down in your first attempt at the next frame.
Strike X: score 10 points + the number of pins you knock down in your next two rolls (15 sec)
48
If 7 is transformed into 13 and 11 is changed to 21 then what does 16 become?
Answer: 31, because I multiplied the number by 2 and subtracted one.
About ______ of all water on Earth is freshwater. Only less than ______ of freshwater is accessible -- yet this resource is essential for human life. Most freshwater is ice or snow locked up in glaciers.
2.5%...1%
25%...1%
2.5%...10%
25%...10%
2.5%...1%
After you roll the bowling ball down the lane towards the end of the lane, it breaks an infrared ______ which initiates the pin setter control unit. (fill in the blank with a word starting with “s”)
Sensor